psychedelic odyssey that sounds totally awesome then they "realised they were truly a pop band" [read got told it was unreleasable by the label and then decided they wanted money rather than a protracted court battle or whatever]?

You really are awfully irritating. What you're posting isn't actually constructive. In fact, it's just you wallowing around in our own fancy-worded bullshit. Take "being anal" out of your schedule and have a bit of a laugh.

everyone would love them. americans have seen little to none of the hype surrounding this band and the ones that know about them like them. because they're good. the british seem blinded by hype backlash. if they were from say, seattle, you all would be shitting your trousers over them as the saviours of rock. like if interpol were british they would be dumped into the laughing stock...

Shit like Florence And The Machine and The Libertines and Mumford And Sons and The Klaxons, just fucking nonsense. I'm not seeing much hype for Rolo Tomassi or Male Bonding, who might actually conceivably deserve it, Rolo even worked with Diplo and they didn't get hyped.

they're an underground band. but for those months leading up to their album coming out, on here and on other british music websites who keep up with that sort of music, there wasn't a more hyped band in the land, possibly excepting dana. this is such a messageboard argument.